Message from the Technical Program Chairs

The 14 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2017) will take place in Columbus, Ohio USA. ICAC is the premiere forum for research on autonomic computing techniques, foundations and applications. In 2017, ICAC will feature 4 keynote speakers, one for each day of the conference. On July 17, Dr. Nelly Bencomo from Aston University will champion the rold of autonomic methods to create models of software interactions at runtime. Mr. Mark Patton from the Columbus Smart Cities Initiative will discuss integrated data exchanges, data APIs and city-scale applications in America’s Smart City on July 18. Dr. Ragunathan Rajkumar from Carnegie Mellon will talk about his breakthrough work on autonomous vehicles, especially self-driving cars, on July 19. On July 20, Dr. John Wilkes will talk about building Google’s wharehouse-scale computers that manage themselves.